Nearby Shopping Malls • Downtown Salem and Corvallis have many independently owned stores• The Woodburn Outlet Stores sell brand name products at discounted prices www.woodburncompanystores.com • Salem Center gives you that mall experience www.salemcenter.com • Lancaster Mall is on the east side of Salem www.LancasterMall.com

Entertainment/sports There’s much to see and do at WOU and in the region. Keep your eyes open, especially for cultural entertainment (concerts, theatre, etc.) which is not always well advertised. Check with ASWOU and fellow students. This is the direct link to the WOU calendar: www.wou.edu/press_release/calendar_newsrelease.

Parks Monmouth is centrally located and an hour or two from the beach, Portland, and the mountains. There are smaller and bigger parks everywhere. Oregon nature is awesome! • The Independence River Front Park is just minutes away. • Others are described in detail at www.travelsalem.com The area around Monmouth is perfect for any kind of biking, hiking, skiing, swimming, horseback riding, and more. WOU sponsors sport clubs (WOU also offers P.E. classes like fly fishing, backpacking, etc.)

Restaurants The WOU Wolf Planner has an extensive list of eateries on and off campus. • Travel Salem has details on many types of eating establishments in the area. www.TravelSalem.com

Furniture • At www.craigslist.org you find anything from products, services, cars and houses/apartments, furniture. • GoodWill and H20 second hand stores in Dallas and Salem have used items • The IKEA store in Portland is near the airport: www.ikea.com/us/en/store/portland